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Does herpes zoster predispose to giant cell arteritis: a geo-epidemiologic study

PURPOSE: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common systemic vasculitis in the elderly and can cause irreversible blindness and aortitis. Varicella zoster (VZ), which is potentially preventable by vaccination, has been proposed as a possible immune trigger for GCA, but this is controversial. The...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clin Ophthalmol
Hauptverfasser: Ing, Edsel B, Ing, Royce, Liu, Xinyang, Zhang, Angela, Torun, Nurhan, Sey, Michael, Pagnoux, Christian
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769597/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29391771
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S151893
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